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F. HEATH.

REINFORCED BUILDING WALL.

APPLlCATlON FILED FEB. 20, 1918. nmzwzn pus. 19, \919.

Patented Oct. 21, 1919 WITNESSES FREDERICK HEATH, OF TACOMA, WASHINGTGIT.

REINFORCED BUILDING- ALL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Got. 21, 1919..

Application filed Februayyflo, 1918, Serial No. 218,259: Renewed August 19, 1919. Serial No. 318,591.

ruary 6, 1917, having simple, inexgensive' reinforcing elements capable of utilization either horizontally o; vertically or both, my

primary object being the provision of a wall of this type wherein reinforcing members may be utilized without changing or breaking the running joints of the blocks or tiles, and without displacing or otherwise interfering with the alinenicnt of the supporting webs.

As the description of my present improvements proceeds, it will be noted that my invention does away with a specially formed tile or block having a space provided to receive a metallic reinforcing bar, and that it obviates the necessity of cutting the tile or block to receive the bar.

It will be observed, furthermore, that the presence of the reinforcing members does not interfere with the bedding of the tiles or blocks, and certain other advantages will be noted in the course of the detailed explanation to follow.

In the accompanying drawing illustrating my present invention Figure 1 is a, perspective view illustrating a relatively narrow "all constructed in accordance with my invention;

Fig. 2 is a. similar view illustrating a,

somewhat wider form of awall, and,

Fig. 3 is another similar view illustrating still a wider form of wall.

Referring now to these figures, it will be noted that as in my patent'above referred to, the blocks or tiles are laid in horizontal courses, and that in proceeding vertically in the formation of the wall the. blocks of each course have their cross joints, that is the joints between their ends, in break ioint relation to the cross j oi ntsv of the courses above and below the same, so that the cross joints of alternate courses are in the same vertical planes.

Referring now to Fig. 1, which shows a relatively narrow wall, the blocks 10 of alternate courses are of the full width of the wall and have voids 11 between and at opposite sides of vertically disposed supporting webs 1-2, whichlatter, it is to be noted, as well aslh'e webs at the sides of the blocks 10,

are alined, vertically throughout the series not only with the similar blocks of alter-. nate courses, but with the vertical Webs 13 of the blocks 14 of the other courses, which latter are separate from one another and have longitudinal. or running joints 15 tlrerehetween alined with the central voids 11 of the blocks 10. Thus the inner side webs 13 of the blocks 14: are brought into register with the supporting webs 12 of the blocks 10, and the running joints 15 provide for the reception of horizontally disposed reinforclng rods 16,.through those alternate courses in which the blocks 1% occur, and

also provide for the reception of Vertically as the latter proceeds-to completion, and it,

is also to be observed that the said reinforcing bars may, without extra work or trouble, he firmly and rigidly united within the Wall by grouting or cementing the same, within both the running and cross joints of the blocks or tiles.

In a wall slightly greater "in width than that above described, and as seen in Fig. 2, where each course consists of two blocks 19 and 20, and each succeeding course is the same with the exception of the reversed order of these blocks, it is obvious that the horizontal and vertical reinforcing bars 21 and 22 may be utilized either a one side or the other of the center of the wall or staggered throughout the Wall, and it is'fur-ther obvious from an inspectionof Fig. 3, Where alternate courses contain two blocks 23 of the same type, and the other courses embodying three blocks 24 and 25 of which the block 25 alone is like the blocks23' of the other alternate courses, it is obvious that the horizontal and verticl bars 26 and 2-? may be USGrl either at the center or opposite sides or staggered throughout the Well, just as oesirerl, the vertical reinforcing bars of l igs. 2 e111 extending through the running joints: of certain courses and the cross joints oi the other courses just es in Fig, 1.

It therefore obvious that my invention enables me to reinforce it Well of the type shoe-n in my patent above referred to, and uchl its strength in various degrees, inesi'x'iuch as it is obvious that the numbers of reinforcing rods of Figs. 2 and 3 may be greatly varied, as desired, and that even in the Wall shown in l, the horizontal reinforcing bars 16 may be greatly variecl as to number.

A reinforced building Wall consisting of blocks laid horizontally in courses, one above another, and of which certain courses at least comprise se rarate blocks in the Width of the Wall and have running joints between such blocks, the cross or end joints of the blocks of the several courses being arranged in break-joint relation with the cross joints of alternate courses in vertical elinenieut, reinforcing bars extending verticnli through the cross joints of alternate courses and the running joints of the other courses, and

other reinforcing bars extending horizontally through the running 1o1nts of the last mentioned courses.

FREDERICK nnrrrn. 

